...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

It is Love that gives joy to happiness.

I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.