Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.

Many gentleman were unable to cope with abundant chatter, which is why they so often married it.

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform life.

More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

I can’t play Mahatma Gandhi.

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

I was once that kid that needed a donation – that needed help to go to camp because my mom wasn’t able to pay for it.

I’m the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven’t read a book in a couple of years, I try to give it to someone who will.

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

A Portuguese man who couldn’t sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

Plenty of times, I haven’t been able to wear certain clothes because they didn’t come in my size.

One should query oneself without defence and without limits. If I am unable to see the defects in the machines I create myself, how can I see properly into myself?

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

You can’t improve on saying nothing.

I was very famous, and I think I didn’t handle the fame very well.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to completely walk away from football.

I don’t recognize myself in the players I see today. There’s only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He’s not just a great footballer, he’s a showman, an entertainer.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.

No empty handed man can lure a bird.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses.