Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.