I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.

Im an environmentalist; I recycle.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).

Sweep away the dirt, Let's get a little messy.Underneath is love.

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.