Reason will always be logical, Logic not always reasonable, For truth from reason derivable, And logic falsehood multipliable.

Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.

Speech one may regret, Silence no sorrow begets, Humility be born before honour, Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

When you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. Munindra Misra

A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.

Conduct, not speech, flowery

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

When a man cheats on his wife or girlfriend, he breaks the spell that made him once the special one.

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what’s there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow.