I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

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.

Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.