"I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes - can help anybody get any better or worse at it."

“What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong,”

“1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan”

“Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.”

Source : Quoted by Charu Chandra Banerjee in a speech at Dhaka Purva Bangla Brahmo Samaj; "Brahmananda Keshub Chunder Sen: Testimonies in Memoriam" compiled by G.C.Banerji, Allahabad, 1934.

“Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.”

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”

“The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.”

Source : John Aubrey (1969). “Natural history of Wiltshire”

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”

“Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.”