Nothing is our except time.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.

A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.

When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.