I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

What we will become depends on us

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

Dare to be more than ordinary... Dare to be extraordinary.

Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.