I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Leo Tolstoy

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Hu Jintao

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Mercedes McCambridge

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Haruki Murakami

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giacomo Casanova

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

Simone Elkeles

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.

Chief Seattle

If the truth shall have made thee free, thou shalt not care for the vain words of men

Thomas Kempis

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Sri Sarada Devi

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Thomas Henry Huxley