The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Never confuse motion with action.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Never complain and never explain.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

A person hears only what they understand.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.