I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Life is never free of contradictions

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.