"My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome."

“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?”

“It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.”

“Some people warned me against getting married soon. They said your career will end if you do. I felt I wanted to marry Siddharth (Roy Kapur) and I went ahead and married him. And I guess he felt like he wanted to marry me, so we are married today. If I hadn’t felt it for the next ten years probably I wouldn’t have got married. There is no right time. There’s never a right time.”

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.”

“Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.”

“While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

“There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.”

Source : Ellen Bass, Laura Davis (2012). “Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children”, p.9, Harper Collins

“I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.”