Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help--for it As impotently moves as you or I.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

The first in glory, as the first in place.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.

If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!

He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Don't let people drive you crazy when it is within walking distance.

Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.