Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I love life with its twists and turns.

You can’t make someonedo something just becauseyou want them to.What you do have, however, is the opportunity toinfluence their choices.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

Catch the beauty of the moment!

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.

A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.