It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

Each one of us has his own place in the industry. I've been able to prove that you don't necessarily have to be a Khan to be successful!

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Resentment of reality can hurt more than reality

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

Fidelity is for phonographs