When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son.

Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow