Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.

The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

We use the word ‘LOVE’ for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why can’t we use different words to convey different feelings? Why use a word when we don’t sincerely mean it?

It’s a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.

Wonder ... music heard in the heart is voiceless.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.