Therein lies the incongruity between progressive self-flagellants and the rest of us. What they consider introspectively virtuous and pious, we view as weak and self-loathing.

I have delivered sometimes, and the other times, I have not. I have taken it in my stride as a player and learnt from my mistakes.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.

A novel is a window into the human soul, a mirror in which we see ourselves reflected

Life is like a rollercoaster ride. Enjoy the ups and learn from the downs.
Explanation

Failure is not the end, but an opportunity for growth and self-reflection.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I’m actually not like that at all.

If you’re writing on your own, each character is just you. It’s just you.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when you see the stunts in the movie, you realize it could’ve been a lady in a poncho.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.