Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.