I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.

If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.

In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

My expertise is running businesses.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.

This ring belongs to the black hand. He killed your dad.

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.