Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.
It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
There have always been elements in the Pakistani state that have been hostile to India; which is not to say that the Pakistani government as a whole is responsible for bombing Indian cities. But I think there are entities in the Pakistani security services that operate more or less autonomously. Their role certainly needs looking into.
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.