Certain signs precede certain events.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Live to the point of tears.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.