"Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met."

“Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.”

“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”

“Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.”

Source : Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

“The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.8, Open Road Media

“Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.”

Source : "A Minute With: Irrfan, formerly Irrfan Khan". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 23, 2012.

“My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.”

“To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts.”

“I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.”