शांत Quotes

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.

Do not hit at all if it can be avoided;

but never hit softly.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Only as far as the masters of the world

have called in nature to their aid,

can they reach the height of magnificence.

This is the meaning of their hanging

gardens, villas, houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

It is not the style of clothes one wears,

neither the kind of automobile one drives,

nor the amount of money one has in the bank,

that counts.

These mean nothing.

It is simply service that measures success.

You can’t have a better tomorrow

if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

I don't have a therapist,

so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

The main problem with writing in verse is,

if your fourth line doesn't come out right,

you've got to throw four lines away and figure,

out a whole new way to attack the problem,

So the mortality rate is terrific.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find,

but symmetrical men never.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,

than the neglect of discipline;

for that discipline,

more than numbers,

gives one army,

the superiority over another.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh,

how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

If you want to succeed

you should strike out on new paths,

rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success

Joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

What gets measured gets managed.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up,

this diminishes fear;

knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction?

Fiction,

after all,

has to make sense.

All wars signify the failure of

conflict resolution mechanisms,

and they need post

war

rebuilding of faith, trust and

confidence.

Count your age by friends,

not years.

Count your life by smiles,

not tears.