Happiness is a big joke

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.