No matter what challenges you are faced with, or the opinions people have of you, rejection in and of itself from others is not a valid system to predict your future.

The choices in the now are the choices of all your tomorrows combined

What you perceive as rejection is really someone making choices based on their needs at that time

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.