Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

Life is about making right things and going on.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.

In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.

Hijras are a sexual minority that is visible, and yet we are treated as the invisibles. I believe I was never invisible. I thought, "I'm the face in the crowd, not the crowd."

It was men, not God, who had done those things...

Colors add meaning to life, Some hidden facts they do imbibe.One color could signify two things, The onus lies on us, As to how we take it.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.

I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

First and foremost: Feed people.

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.