No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.