We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

The world remains ever the same.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!