Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

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 know you’re afraid of me. I can smell your fear, and I actually kind of like it.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

The conscience of a people is their power.

Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.