"For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic."

“Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.”

“See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "CongressToday"/ "Rahul Gandhi Speech at CII Summit: 04 April, 2013", www.youtube.com. April 4, 2013.

“You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.”

“What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.”

“If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.”

“I think there are lots of people that believe in rock 'n' roll. It's real easy. You just find some friends to play with and then you can feel it. I think that happens all the time. To be in a band and be playing in a room really loud, even if you never play a show, that feeling is really addictive and pure.”

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“Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

“Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.”