Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Arthur Koestler

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

Leighton Meester

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Thomas Carlyle

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Alan Dershowitz

A lot of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.the truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothings lasts forever.if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.

Chitralekha Paul

Confidence is always overconfidence.

Robert Byrne

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Lord Chesterfield

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Joe Manchin

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Thomas Jefferson

precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.

A Gentlemen