For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

History is written by the victors.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Money can’t buy life.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.