Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

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.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

The latter end of joy is woe.

Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.