Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

George Bernard Shaw

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Jerry Brown

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

Samuel Butler

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

John Oldham

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

Geoffrey Rush

Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Abdul Kalam

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop

You are not on a journey to God; you are on a journey WITH God.

Steve Maraboli

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when its gone.

Rob Thomas