That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

I love diversity.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.