I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

I don't believe in taking right decisions.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Always evaluate and determine the product of your life

It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth.

With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out.

My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

I would hope that everyone likes my music.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.