There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Stand up for what's right for you when the time's right. Wake up to grab it as soon as possible. Shake up when you wake up

The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank.

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

But how can one be warm alone?

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.