Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.