The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.