There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Lin Yutang

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Vita SackvilleWest

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

E.E. Cummings

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

George Crabbe

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Aishwarya Rai

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

John Locke

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Carl Jung

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

Jean Racine

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Dorothy Parker

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Lee Smolin