It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

A good attitude is the best attire.

Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.