I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Yet this is a truth people so easily seem to forget and begin to prize local, sectional or provincial interests above and regardless of the national interests. It naturally pains me to find the curse of provincialism holding sway over any section of Pakistan. Pakistan must be rid of this evil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

Ernest Holmes

Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

Virginia Woolf

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Arquette

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Warren Buffett

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Lev Grossman

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Frank McCourt

Yoga's an amazing release.

Monica Keena

Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

William Ellery Channing, The Mor