Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

As for hot songs...there are five in Dhoom 3, and I hope they are all hot!

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.