Disha

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’

John F Kennedy

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Homer

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Eric Hoffer

“There’s this big pie in show business, and you physically can’t eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.”

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston