“Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.”

Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day.

But I guess it’s better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it’s okay if education becomes a profitable business, it’s not okay if it becomes corrupt.

In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It’s never easier to live being as weaker one!

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

She had perfect features, with her eye, nose, lips, and ears the right size and in right places. That is all it takes to make people beautiful, normal body parts – yet why does nature mess it up so many times?

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.

I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I’d rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.

It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

I played against the Brazilians in ’82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.