"Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters."

"There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't."

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

"You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today."