Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

Life finds its meaning and answers from what life does to serve others.

Why say no when you could say yes!

I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.