As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Fall in love with the heart before the face.

I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you

I believe in love but I don't sit around waiting for it.

As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

I wanted to be the fifth Beatle.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.