Gujrati Quotes

Good friends,

good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Work hard,

play hard,

and always stay true to yourself.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Very few of us are what we seem.

A chief event of life is the day in which

we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do,

but doing it like you love it.

The standard is the standard.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow.

he told me to wear a brown tie.

To be good is noble;

but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I knew I was going to be a millionaire at age 30…

but I didn’t expect to be a billionaire.

As you walk and eat and travel,

be where you are.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Christmas is not a time Happy Christmas Day

nor a season, but

a state of mind. To

cherish peace and goodwill,

to be plenteous in mercy,

is to have the real

spirit of Christmas.

Writing is my love.

If you love something,

you find a lot of time.

I write for two hours a day,

usually starting at midnight; at times,

I start at 11.

I was losing interest in politics,

when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.

What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Wine is sunlight,

held together by water.

I’m a big fan of the classic Hollywood era.

God enters by a private door into every individual.