Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

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.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror, ' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

The message I wanted to deliver to those battling with depression is to know that they are not the only ones, it is not easy, but you can come out of it and help someone else.

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.