Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

The natural world sustains me and fills me with joy.

I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”