Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.

The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

We use the word ‘LOVE’ for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why can’t we use different words to convey different feelings? Why use a word when we don’t sincerely mean it?

It’s a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.

Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.

I fear that moments of quietude are on the endangered list

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

If the afterlife really is a big war, ” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.