We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

We shall understand that when waiting is rightly comprehended, it is a deliciousness that is already indeed a wink of bliss.

When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Your imagination is an extremely powerful tool.

Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'