The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

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 do not have to be beautiful.You do not even have to be intelligent.All you have to do is practice kindness, for that is our purpose.

Philosophically, war is an extension of man’s struggle with sin and evil in the world.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.

Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.

Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.