The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The shortest follies are the best.

Getting employment is equivalent to cutting your life into pieces bit by bit

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Order is just chaos waiting to happen

Live your life without any fear.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.