The historian records, but the novelist creates.

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.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.