Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.

Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

It's so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.You didn't help me at all when I was so poor and needy.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!