“A woman’s compassion and gentleness are often taken for her weakness, never push someone to a point where they have nothing to loose anymore, you only give them a freedom not many know, such people don’t only become dangerous but lethal as well”

A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don’t think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that’s a very small aspect of my life.

Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

Value your health above everything.

When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.

All beautiful things in this world are because of women.

I love folk music of any tradition.

I don’t find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

As a woman, we don’t have to hope to get our dues.

When I was a little girl I decorated myself with pearls, cut my own hair, wore thigh high socks and heels. People laughed at me.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I don’t really give into all that philosophical talks that ‘money is not everything.

People will try and confine you in adjectives, they will either declare you beautiful or call you ugly, either way it will box you, rise above their perception of you, free yourself and let your deeds define you.

The thing about Bollywood is that you can’t just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.

Fashion should be inclusive but what is the point of including others and excluding our own? True meaning of Nationalism is Nation first, our own first.

Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Give, but give until it hurts.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.