I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.

The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word—sin. It has crippled the nature of man . . .It has caused man to be caught in the devil’s trap.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.

You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.