Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flattery works like a drug.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.

Never expect appreciation for your hard work. Just continue, it will take you to the top.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

The soul has no gender.

For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.