We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!
If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!
Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud; the universe does not care about you!
I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.
What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.
Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.
Healthy Odisha - Happy Odisha. Let us continue our endeavour to build a prosperous and strong state.
I thought my father served the people of Orissa, and I thought I would continue that to some extent.
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece
Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.
Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.
The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.
Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.
Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.
I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.
I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.
Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.