“A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

India is an Old country but a young nation, I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind.

It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.