“Good music always defeats bad luck.”

“I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.”

“I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!”

“One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.”

“Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.”

“Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.”

“You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive ...”

“BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW”

“Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.”

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”

“Once in jail or you just go in prison for a reason you don't have rights... So be wise, think twice and don't go there!”

“The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber”

“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”

“All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I...”