A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".

Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes.

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.