Don't change your mind just because people are offended

The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world

When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

Time is a currency you can only spend once.