The truth often does sound unconvincing.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

my godis not as unreachable asthey'd like you to thinkmy god is beating inside us infinitely

because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.