Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

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.

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.

That which costs little is less valued.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Without training you will not grow wings.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

New places always help us look at life differently

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.