The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Play the hand you're dealt.

Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble.

Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.