Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.

The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

We use the word ‘LOVE’ for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why can’t we use different words to convey different feelings? Why use a word when we don’t sincerely mean it?

It’s a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.

Ring out the old ring in the new Ring happy bells across the snow.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.