Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

That's all nonsense, " said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?

Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisions. Listen to your heart.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone." I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out. She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

You are the creator of your own destiny