Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Never be afraid to love. Just be careful who you love.

Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.

There is always some element of competition. As and when more players show interest in a space, it endorses increasing demand. I have never taken competition as a treat.

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.

It is time for us to say no, we are not going to backwards, we're going forward into a brighter future.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.