"The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God."

“Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.”

“Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.”

Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.233, Vintage

“Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.”

“There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles”

“The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.”

Source : "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".

“In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.”

“It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.”

“I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.”