I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

If someone said 'diametrically, ' could 'opposed' be far behind?

Those who speak only of what they lack end up with little.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

Predictability brings about security.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.