To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

It must be fun to be you And play with love as you do To treat each new romance As merely one more dance Or just another book to glance through It must be fun to acquire Whatever heart you desire, And when you're bored with it To tear it in two, It must be fun to be you.

Cole Porter

Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

Amos Traver

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

Pratibha Patil

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

Valerie Bertinelli

Travel teaches tolerance.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without.

William M. Peck

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Thomas Kempis

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

Dave Eggers

No two people really know each other before marriage because it takes about seven years to know each other, another seven to understand each other, another seven to live with each other and another seven to enjoy each other.

Yogi Bhajan

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

David Byrne

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen