In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'
I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.
Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?
I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'
We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.
If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
