Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.

If you can't reach your dreams, If you can't achieve your goals, If you can't meet your plans, Least be happy each daySuccess is not an annual achievement, It's a daily achievement.

The secrecy of our existence is the key to our survival. The existence of a frail human will never stand upon that.'Lothaire

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Say it with pride we are Hindus