Nagesh Belludi

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
—James Fallows (American Journalist)

I remain just one thing, and one thing only—and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

The lion is ashamed, it’s true, when he hunts with the fox.
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German Writer)

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
—C. S. Lewis (Irish-born British Children’s Books Writer)

Work to connect yourself to the “allness” of life—instead of identifying with the smallness of it—and you’ll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.
—Guy Finley

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
—Jonathan Swift (Irish Satirist)

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
—George Washington Carver (American Scientist)

People seldom improve, when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
—Oliver Goldsmith (Irish Author)

The longing for certainty … is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician)

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.
—Lydia H. Sigourney

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
—William Faulkner (American Novelist)

This, too, shall pass.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
—Bill Maher (American Comedian TV Personality)

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
—Robert A. Heinlein (American Novelist)

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
—Linus Pauling (American Chemist)

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
—Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (German Poet)

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
—Blaise Pascal (French Catholic Mathematician)

It’s sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest; it’s equally hard to make choices about where you don’t invest and what you eliminate.
—Anne M. Mulcahy (American Businessperson)

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
—Pema Chodron (American Buddhist Nun)

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
—D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist)

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
—Edgar Degas (French Painter)

When people screw up, give them a second chance.
—Richard Branson (British Entrepreneur)

It is our mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
—Edmund Burke (Irish Political leader)

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
—D. T. Suzuki (Japanese Buddhist Philosopher)

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
—Booker T. Washington (American Educator)

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose–somehow we win out.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

We made too many wrong mistakes.
—Yogi Berra (American Sportsperson)

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature—that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.
—F. L. Lucas (English Literary Critic)

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.
—Malaysian Proverb

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
—Henry Adams (American Journalist)

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
—Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austrian-born American Actor)

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader)

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian Head of State)

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
—Pablo Picasso (Spanish Painter)

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Ugliness creates bitterness. Ugliness is an eroding force on the people of our land. We are all here to try to change that.
—Lady Bird Johnson (American Entrepreneur)

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
—Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Italian Jewish Rabbi)

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear… no one except myself can appreciate how I have to work at this job every single day, never letting up for a moment. I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
—Harry Houdini (Hungarian-born American Magician)

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
—Bertolt Brecht (German Poet)

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
—J. K. Rowling (British Children’s Books Writer)

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian Head of State)

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
—Chinese Proverb

The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
—Gordon B. Hinckley (American Mormon Religious Leader)

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.
—Stephen Samuel Wise (American Jewish Rabbi)

There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
—William S. Burroughs (American Novelist)

Men, whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
—Sydney Smith (English Anglican Writer)

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
—Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

It’s okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
—Billy Joel (American Singer)

A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.
—John Milton (English Poet)

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
—A. P. Herbert (English Humorist)

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
—Barbara Kingsolver (American Novelist)

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
—Wernher von Braun (German-born American Engineer)

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
—Johann Jacob Zimmermann (German Nonconformist Theologian)

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
—Marlene Dietrich (German-born American Actor)

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence more than talents and accomplishments.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (American Essayist)

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
—John Dewey (American Philosopher)

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
—Shirley MacLaine (American Actor)

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (American Essayist)

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
—John D. MacDonald (American Novelist)

A man lives not only his personal life as an individual but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
—Thomas Mann (German Novelist)

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
—Reynolds Price (American Novelist)

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
—George P. Shultz (American Economist)

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
—Bob Dylan (American Singer)

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
—William Styron (American Novelist)

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
—Shirley MacLaine (American Actor)

Friendship doesn’t exist to criticize but to inspire confidence.
—Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher)

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
—Igor Stravinsky (Russian-born American Composer)

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
—Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter)

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
—William S. Burroughs (American Novelist)