Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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 have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either, ' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

I'm most proud of my family.

I know that in order for something to work for me it has to be extremely powerful.