Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

Toba Beta

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso

I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.

Saina Nehwal

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Art Buchwald

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Jane Austen

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

E. M. Cioran

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.

Elmer G. Letterman

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Marcel Duchamp

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Source Unknown

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

Masaru Ibuka

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

John Shelton Reed

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Sugar Ray Robinson