Real wealth is the will of action. Without it all possessions are worthless.
-Thiruvalluvar
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
After helping someone, if you expect a gesture of gratitude from him, then there
is no point in helping. If you feel good when he expresses his gratitude, then too
helping is useless. In that case, you must understand that your help was merely
a means to satiate your ego.
-Deep Trivedi
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr