Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

Sports can't be run by governments.

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.

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

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750, 000 girls per year.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

I am surprised by what people expect of me.

When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.

I often think of myself as the discoverer-in-chief.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.