Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever. '
I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.