"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."

“What! All this for a song?”

Source : To Queen Elizabeth, on being ordered to make a gratuity of £100 to Spenser in return for some poems, in Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queene' (1751) 'The Life of Mr Edmund Spenser' by Thomas Birch

“I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.”

“Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.”

Source : Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

“When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.”

“I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.”

“There are no rebels in the cinema business.”

“I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.”

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

“The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ...”