How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

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?

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.

Make yourself feel good. Be enthusiastic about your day.

For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.