"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."

“Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.”

“This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.”

“Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.”

“Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.”

“I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.”

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

“In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.”

Source : "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

“Human beings disappear; their histories remain.”

Source : Bernard Stiegler, Stephen Barker (2010). “Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise”, p.131, Stanford University Press

“Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.”