In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

Say it with pride we are Hindus