But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

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.

There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

A lot of times I just feel like this is not a special day, these are just clothes that I bought.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.