Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.