Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

Be grateful for life. Show gratitude to others, whether it’s verbally or energetically, it has the same effect.

Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.