I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Nathaniel Emmons

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Daryl Hall

Intent and action are the fuel and vehicle in the journey of creation.

Steve Maraboli

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Nicholas Sparks

Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.

Proverb

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Marie de France

Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Godfrey Reggio