The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

…She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. “I don’t want to die, ” she whispered, “but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

Man created religion in order to avoid god.

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.