“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Almost anything is possible with time.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I am interested in government spend quality, as it accounts for the biggest chunk of the social spending pie. Hundreds of foundations put together cannot equal what the government can spend.

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth

I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I’m glad my mom made me do it.

God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.