First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.

I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.