"If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that."

“Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.”

“I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think thats the main difference.”

Source : NDTV interview, sports.ndtv.com. June 2, 2012.

“In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.”

“I never had a driving ambition to be a star.”

“Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency”

“I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like... "This is the world? This is reality?"”

Source : Source: collider.com

“There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.”

“It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster