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.

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?

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.

We have little importance. Once we've assimilated that, life can have a meaning.

Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.

If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Right now, doctors can test for about 2, 500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.