I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.
Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.
Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.
Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.
Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini.
In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.
The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.
When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.