It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

Anyone can be a businessman

Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

Last name 'Ever', first name 'Greatest'

A real collector does not sell.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.