The sea is dangerous, they say, but not if you're the sea.

We're practical and sensible but we're also dreamers. Don't forget that part of you. There's nothing wrong with being sensible, but dreams are what make you fly. And you're destined to touch the sky.

Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.