A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Albert Schweitzer

Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, something you can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Michelle Obama

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Fred A. Allen

I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man

Albert Camus

Without discipline, there is no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Manmohan Singh

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Orison Swett Marden