I am following a particular diet, and it requires me to not just eat right but also at the right time. So, I carry food from home.

I love the way Tyra Banks dresses up - she looks so elegant and glamorous in whatever she wears. The confidence and attitude she exudes on and off the ramp is remarkable.

You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.

It's an amazing experience to work with Hrithik. He is one of the finest actors, and there is a reason for it. He is extremely hardworking and fully dedicated.

I believe in nourishment and having a balanced diet. I avoid bingeing and try and eat healthy, especially lots of amla, and drink lots and lots of water.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.

I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.

What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.