Shayri Quotes

I love deadlines.

I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

When I was a boy of fourteen,

my father was so ignorant

I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually

listening to what another has to say.

Either you run the day or

the day runs you

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.

The happiness of your life depends upon

the quality of your thoughts.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey

and car keys to teenage boys.

We should not be satisfied with success

if it leaves us blind to the possibilities beyond.

Life’s too serious to be taken seriously.

Keep raising your words,

not your voice.

It is rain that grows flowers,

not thunder.

I never ran my train off the track,

and I never lost a passenger.

The more you can increase fear of drugs,

crime, welfare, immigration, and aliens,

the more you control all of the people.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition

that morality can be maintained without religion.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that

national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Take up one idea Make that one idea your life think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

All, everything that I understand,

I understand only because I love.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

When we honestly ask ourselves

which person in our lives means the most to us,

we often find it is those who,

instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,

have chosen rather to share our pain

and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

The freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.