"Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow."

“When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.”

“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”

“Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.”

“It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.”

Source : Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.33, Penguin Books India

“There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening.”

“The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.”

“The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly”

Source : Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster

“The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.”