Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

The country [India] is doing far better.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.