Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

Source Unknown

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Agnetha Faltskog

I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

B.K.S. Iyengar

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Mary Astell

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Juan Goytisolo

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

Jan Morris

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

James Naismith

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

Martina Hingis