Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

What we call life is only talk of nature.

Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.

A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.

Underwear is such an emotional thing.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

I'm not brave at all.

What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].