What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.

[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.