It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

I have to be seen to be believed.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?""I'd rather swim in battery acid.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.