Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

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.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.