Never give in, never back down.
On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.
I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.
No dream is ever chased alone.
If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride
Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.