"Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut."

“The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.”

“There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.”

Source : "A Global Culture to Fight Extremism". TEDGlobal 2011, www.ted.com. July 2011.

“Actually, the books were never a planned career path.”

“No one remembers who came in second.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.”

“We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they be.”

“The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.48, New Directions Publishing

“Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.”