The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
God save us from people who mean well.
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.
I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) The lie that flatters I abhor the most.