"I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think."

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”

Source : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

“Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.”

“If you're gonna lob something, lob love.”

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Source : "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

“We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.”

Source : "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

“Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.”

“September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you think: This could be one of the last, the summer is nearly over. If you get a wonderful day in May, you think: So what, theres more coming.”

“No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.”