If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

Sports can't be run by governments.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Doubt everything except your conscience, even then test the waters, for much brainwashing has gone out into the world

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.