You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Love is not self-seeking.Love is not easily angered.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

I don't have a stack of scripts...

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

That might be between BJP and Kejriwal. So far as Congress party is concerned, we are fighting this election to win.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.