I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Art too is just a way of living.

Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.

A poet's fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes.

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.