There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.

Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?" She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?

If I think, everything is lost.