In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.
I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
I've met some great men, I've met a lot of not-so-great ones.
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.
The great untruth around which everything pivots is the idea that the defenders of these statues are the defenders of history and truth; while those who want to see them toppled or contextualised are the Huns at the gate, who would destroy national histories and bring down great men.
