No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

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.

You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

Genius is infinite painstaking.

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.