The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

Don't give any chance for others to stole your smile..Because, it is the most valuable asset than anything in this world!

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

With free mind, is there anything that you can not create? With unfree mind, is there anything that you can create?

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.