You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

All trials are trials of one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

Pratibha Patil

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Angelo Scola

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Mike Tyson

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Peter Ustinov

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Alfred Jarry

The promise had not failed her.... She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear... Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

John Buchan

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Martin Scorsese

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Florenz Ziegfeld