I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?
That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others
Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.
I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.
Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.