“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.” FirstsLooksSaidEyeLastsAirAmbitionBlindFortuneProsperityPrudenceEagles Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.” WorldHas BeensSaidTodayTogetherNationsImagineDiversityProsperityDisasterBrotherhoodIsolatedImagine ThatSplitsFragmentsUnity In DiversityIndivisible Book:India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961 Source: India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961
“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.” PeopleWantChildrenSaidGrowsGrowing UpLandOur ChildrenProsperityFatsCattle Author:Jomo Kenyatta
“It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.” PeopleFeelsWellsHas BeensSaidOrderTroubleAccountsProsperityRuinsWitnessDisagreeNeglectedFlocksMaliciousMany Friends Author:Andre Maurois