Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Hell, there are no rules here - we are trying to accomplish something.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; may be the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be the measure of our success.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have a place. Amid the tumult of reverberant strife.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.