Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.

Passion is a key to unlimited success. Without it, we wither and die. It drives our hearts, our minds and our souls to achieve the best possible results.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.