There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

All men are brothers in the night.

That is — your friend?" "Philtatos, " Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.