You fellows are amazing, ' the sweaty cook roared over the stoves. 'Everything happens to you only. Each time you come here, you have a new adventure story to entertain us

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Dissolution means envelopment in Eternity.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.