Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

What you meditate on is what you believe.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.