Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course, " the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

Intersections are crash magnets.

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?