Chanakya

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.