Words worth keeping

پتہ پتہ بوٹا بوٹا حال ہمارا جانے ہے، جانے نہ جانے گل ہی نہ جانے باغ تو سارا جانے ہے۔

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

Man is the cruelest animal.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.