The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

All your strength must come from within, because no external source can provide it.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.