Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas.

Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas.

Nobody starts with all the answers. The path to the summit is not fully visible from base camp.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

Elections are rarely perfect.

I distinctly remember being very young, sixth grade maybe, and being at a party and hearing the mothers discuss the children. And the mothers said, 'Well, it's very clear who's the leader in the group.' And they were talking about me!

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.

My bankers are very happy with me.

I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at the center of our galaxy. And the reason this is interesting is that it gives us an opportunity to prove whether or not these exotic objects really exist.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I don't know whether endurance sports attract obsessional people, or training for endurance sports makes people obsessional... it's the chicken and the egg.

Basically, I like research because research is like to solve the quiz, you know. Always there is a problem, and I have to solve the problem. So I like those patterns. It's almost like research is sort of in a quiz.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

In this revolution, no plans have been written for retreat.

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.