The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

With words we govern men.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

My rule is to save myself first.

Hijras are a sexual minority that is visible, and yet we are treated as the invisibles. I believe I was never invisible. I thought, "I'm the face in the crowd, not the crowd."

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.