I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

It's okay to be nervous, scared, angry or sad sometimes so long as you don't let those emotions rule your entire life.

You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.

I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.