Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.

The dream was on hold. It wasn't dead.

You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.

Knowledge is self –discovery.

...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Those who love each other shall become invincible.