“A great man is always willing to be little.”

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Every wall is a door.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

I thoroughly enjoyed shooting for ‘Velaikkaran,’ and I made a great friend in Sivakarthikeyan during the process. Also, it was wonderful working with director Mohan Raja. I have not seen a director who takes so much effort to get things the best way possible.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

So inspired by what it means to be a woman of substance. A woman of great poise and assertiveness.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

I’ve learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible