You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

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.

Love is not perfection. Love is when two imperfect people choose not to give up on each other.

Let not miracle be your focus but be strong in diligence which is an eternal virtue.

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.