I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen', but now things have changed a lot.

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

Humor is just truth, only faster!

Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.