Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

My father is a hotelier in Karnataka. There're no actors in my family.

I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.