Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.

How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.

Restriction often enhances clarity.

It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.