All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

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.

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.