India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

Christopher Dawson

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence

Samuel Johnson

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Warren Christopher

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Scott Bakula

A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.

Oscar Wilde

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Clarence Day

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Jean Anouilh

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Nicola Abbagnano

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Peace Pilgrim

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

David Mamet

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

Zach Braff