All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

Sports can't be run by governments.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

There's a counter for every hold and a hold for every counter, and a lunch counter for every person that you know Schivone.

I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

Let there be songs to fill the air.

If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.