A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

...I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand...

American influence is not what it used to be.

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.