Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Fresh moments ignite the senses. Create them.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

I love acting. I love performing.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Sab kaa saath, sab kaa vikas. This is our mantra.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.