As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must firstunderstand the nature of the force behind its existence.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

I never share credit or desserts.

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

I dream of a Digital India where quality education reaches the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.