If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

to live at all is to be bruised

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.