Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Ho puri dil ki har khwaish teri, Ho khushiyon bhara jahaan tera, Agar tu maange aasmaan ka ek taara, To khuda de-de tumko aasmaan saara.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.