No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

I was fearless...and lawless.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.