poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can.

The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

It's not easy being the sane one!

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

My music is like my freedom space.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.