"Never engage with people on a negative path, as they may lead you toward ruin. Instead, guide them toward positivity, even if it risks your friendship."

"Marriage is God's way of making sure there are only a few great men."

"Life is like the inside of a box that we can never open."

"The clearest water is born from the journey through the muddiest mountains."

"My approach to life is simple: never do anything I wouldn’t want to include in my autobiography."

"Anything gained through ignorance is destined to be lost in the same way."

"You may capture a man's attention with your looks for a moment, but it's your character that holds it for a lifetime."

"Learn to find happiness even in sadness. If you seek it only in joy, you may lose it one day and be left empty-handed."

"There can't be highs on a roller coaster without the lows. Life works the same way."

"The greatness of a culture can be found in its thinkers"

"Religion is god's population-control tool."

"No one person is inherently more intelligent than another; we all simply excel in different areas of intelligence."

"When facing a big challenge, break it down to smaller ones first."

"A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life."

"The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?"

"Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor"

"Can AI produce real art? The art world thrives on rarity. Much like diamonds, which require millions of years of tectonic pressure to form, true art requires the human mind and a lifetime of mastering the medium. AI produces the 'industrial' equivalent—a flood of the common and the non-rare—destining it for the overcrowded slushpile at the base of the pyramid where no one bothers to look."

"The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals."

"Let festivals be a time when we all come together as one, equal in our shared humanity."

"Every day should be a festival."

"Festivals celebrate the human race, in how we’ve conquered the Earth, the Skies and the Waters, and most importantly, our own collective vices."

"Festivals are like rain after a long hot summer. They bring people together like dancing in the rain."

"Festivals are where you see the heart of a culture beating"

"The Happiness Index of a culture can be judged by its festivals"

"Blaming others is the quickest route to stall your own growth."

"Switching from one religion to another is like repeating the same error in a different form. As humanity grows wiser, the only meaningful conversion is beyond religion itself."

"If the mother is the boat's canopy, offering shelter to her children, the father is the sail and rudder, guiding them forward"

"Unless you are one with all humans, you are not human"

"YOUR LIFE IS GRADED...but WE don’t get extra credits for praying— only FOR good deeds"

"Death is the moment we receive a grade for the life we lived"

"Death is the moment when you stop believing in lies and learn the greatest truth"

"Great are those that are remembered for all the right reasons when they’re gone"

"A country or culture can be best judged by how it treats its minorities"

"Beauty is the biggest enemy of attitude"

"Parents with a bad attitude can’t expect children with a good one. Fix yourself first."

"It should be a good story— speak about a time and place that is permanent. It should capture something wonderful with some great characters whether it's set in the past or in the future."

"When we first began, Ruth told us she had never written a screenplay. That was not a problem since I had never produced a feature film and Jim had never directed one."

"I never yell at kids. I just hug them hard and threaten them not to do something again. I would never be aggressive with a woman or a little child. I would rather die before I raise hand on a little kid or a lady."

"I think I invoke radical passions in people - and that is why I am such a big star!"

"Success makes people - people not related to you or to your field - like to take a dig at you."

"Sometimes I don't want to dignify things with answers. And it takes a huge amount of self-restraint, patience, control, and love for your own family, to keep quiet. And dignity, and perhaps the status that I have in the eyes of the people."

"That if you want to be famous, you take your dad's name. And I said the only persons I don't want to be famous by taking my name are [Aryan, his son] and [Suhana, his daughter]. Let the rest of the world do that."

"It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous."

"Successful people do things, and get over with it, and leave others to live their life off it. I DO them. And then I leave it to others to live their life off it."

"As long as the women I’m romancing are happy with me doing it then I’ll carry on."

"Hero is a misnomer. India is the only place left in the world where we call our stars heroes and heroines."

"Rani Mukerji"

"I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star."

"Actually another thing that keeps me going in the industry is trying to do a film that impresses [his kids]."