"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

"It is a timeless truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out."

"So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from."

"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them."

"Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble."