Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.

I will continue to forcefully support nonproliferation activities around the world.

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.

I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.