Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

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.

Some leaders are born women.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

If a guy was like, 'Let me serenade you,' and it was bad, and I had to lie about it - can't have it.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense