“My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.”

There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Remember we’re all in this alone.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.

I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.

We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.