When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.