The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

As I get older I realise that being wrong is not something bad as they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something.

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it. It grows when you spread it.

Live life a little dangerously.

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return. 

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

My greatest fear is giving performances. I feel I am responsible for the audience But I am also scared of them.

Indian music is oriented solely to the end of divine communication. If I have done something in this respect entirely due to the grace of the Almighty who has chosen my humble self as a tool.“