“We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.”

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Every time I go on to the court, people expect me to get a medal. It is tough, and I can’t win always, but I still have to go out there and give my best.

Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

I don’t fear anyone. I just concentrate on giving my best.

I’m focused on going out every day and doing my best.

I’m just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.