Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment – in the path of enlightenment – in the path of humanitarian glory.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

I was glad I liked chemistry.

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.