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.

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

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.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.