Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

traveling is the great true love of my life

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.