A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
Leaving everything else aside, you first have to establish communication between
yourself and the supreme power. As soon as the communication is established,
all your illusions will be shattered. And the one who doesn't have any "illusion",
who can stop him from mounting the pinnacle of success?
-Deep Trivedi
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
-Socrates
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand