Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

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.

I am afraid of the future

Polite people tend to be more respected, admired, and appreciated than their rude counterparts.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.