I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

If there has to be one flower that springs from the weeds, let that flower be YOU.

I wanted to look different because I felt different

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things.

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.