I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

A foreclosure does not define you financially.

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.