Nagesh Belludi

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
—William James (American Philosopher)

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
—Bill Gates (American Businessperson)

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
—John Milton (English Poet)

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
—Will Rogers (American Actor)

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (English Poet)

People don’t understand the sort of fight it takes to record what you want, to record the way you want to record it.
—Billie Holiday

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Novelist)

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (American Protestant Theologian)

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
—Epictetus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (American Protestant Theologian)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
—E. F. Schumacher (German Mathematician)

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
—William James (American Philosopher)

Night has come! Leaning from the window, we gaze at the vast sombre stretch of the city below us, pierced with multitudinous points of light. Jeanne presses her hand to her forehead as she leans upon the window-bar, and seems a little sad. And I say to myself as I watch her: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die in one life before we can enter into another!|And as if answering my thought, the young girl murmurs to me.|My guardian, I am so happy; and still I feel as if I wanted to cry!
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.
—Carl Sandburg (American Children’s Books Writer)

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
—Thomas Jefferson (American Head of State)

Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

Valuable advice can sometimes come from an unexpected source, and chance events can sometimes open new doors.
—N. R. Narayana Murthy (Indian Businessperson)

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
—Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
—Ursula K. Le Guin (Science-fiction writer)

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)

We mean by “politics” the people’s business—the most important business there is.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)

An unruly patient makes a harsh physician.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
—Bessie Anderson Stanley (American Poet)

At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (American Baptist Clergyman)

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
—Jules Renard (French Novelist)

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.
—Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)

Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

Learning organizations may be a tool not just for the evolution of organizations, but for the evolution of intelligence.
—Peter Senge (American Management Consultant)

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems.
—Arthur Ashe (American Sportsperson)

The cultured give happiness wherever they go. The uncultured whenever they go.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)