Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

There is spontaneity to my work.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Originality is really important.