He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

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.

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.

Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.