మావి కొమ్మ చివర మధు మాస వేళ పల్లవమెక్కి కోయిల పాడుటేల ? పరుల తనియించుటకొ ? తన బాగు కొరకో ? గాన మొనరింపక బ్రతుకు గడపబోకో ? — కృష్ణ …

Collected via an internet posting (comp.lang.culture.telugu??): కన్ను నీదని, వేలు నీదని పొడుచుకుంటె రాదా రక్తం ? – ఆత్రేయ కమలాసతి ముఖ …

From Arun Tiwari’s Wings of Fire: To the memory of my parents My Mother Sea waves, golden sand, pilgrims’ faith, Rameswaram Mosque …

From Louis Schmier’s blog post of the same title: “I’ll pour a quiet glass of champagne then or on 2010 January’s …

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day. Leave your theories. All …

*People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s …

How, when I once was so happy, can I suddenly be so sad, How did I end up by losing, that special person I had, How can a pain …

The 48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene. The book shares thematic elements with Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince and has …

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else …

Yesterday I lived bewildered, in illusion. But now I am awake, flawless and serene, beyond the world. From my light the body and the world …

That simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. What we meant by that was when you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple …

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. …

We assume the first rule of communication is, “Communicate so that you are understood.” It’s not. The first rule is, …

“I think the goal of an essay should be to discover surprising things. That’s my goal, at least. And most surprising means most …

**Paul Dirac received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 at the age of 31. That proves his mettle and genius. There are several interesting …

George Orwell’s six elementary rules (“Politics and the English Language”, 1946): Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech …

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. …

** ** There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He …

I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of …

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ …