Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.