Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.

Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

Jan Bhagidari is the biggest asset of a democracy. We are increasing it through MyGov, letters from citizens, Mann Ki Baat and other initiatives.

We need a greening of globalisation.