There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

When Caesar says, 'do this,' it is perform'd.

You, boy, who owe everything to a name

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

A mind can bleed a heart to death.

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

I know my father can make a difference.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.