Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

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.

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

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

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.

There are two ways to improve your service, and yourself: maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.