New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- Few actors carry the mix of gravitas and versatility that two-time Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins does. At 87, he is as quick with a philosophical one-liner as he is with the kind of dark humour only he can deliver with a straight face. Anthony Hopkins' interviews and memoirs are full of small, sharp truths - some gentle, some cutting, all unmistakably his. If your mind feels crowded, or the day feels too heavy, his words have a way of snapping you back to something simpler, clearer, realer.

1. "We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."

2. "My philosophy is: It's none o...