Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I don't want tea, I want justice!

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.

The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.