Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.

The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the staple here, and has been for many centuries.

As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

All things are in all.

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.