For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

Each one of us has his own place in the industry. I've been able to prove that you don't necessarily have to be a Khan to be successful!

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

I live larger than life.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.