Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around

The emergency of women is the emergency of the world.

Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.

Looper is another great film.

The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again.

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.