Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

Sanjay Dutt

When we focus our thoughts on something, we resonate with it. When that resonance is constant and directed, we draw it to us.

Stephen Richards

Be the person you wish to be, not who you are told to be.

Anna Glazebrook

A rotten case abides no handling

William Shakespeare

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Andre Maurois

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Anton LaVey

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Mary Wortley Montagu

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Juliette Binoche

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Anthony Robbins

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

Laura Linney