Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.

Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

The most painful thing is losing Someone who was always beside you...!

There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.