"The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities."

“The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.”

“I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket”

“It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.”

“But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.”

“In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens.”

“I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her . . . the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.”

“I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.”

Source : "Emily Mortimer: 'Secrets are a part of all of our lives'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2010.