“First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure.”

Sachin is cricket’s God.

Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it’s right.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.

Renunciation – that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.

First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.