"I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Life Quotes #Stars Quotes #Moon Quotes

“Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)”
“You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.”
“And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether youâ€™re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that youâ€™re trying to get to the city of gold, and thatâ€™s enough. Come on board, they say. Weâ€™ll adjust.”

Source : "Bombay can take it" by Salil Tripathi, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.
“We should seek the greatest value of our action.”
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
“There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.”
“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.”
“If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.”

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