This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

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.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

Game balance is a really important element of Mario Kart that we look very, very closely at and place a lot of value on.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now."

Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.