If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

Our lives change externally as we change internally.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

Boast quietly, with decorum.

People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

Acting is fun. Don't let that get around.

Shawn Michaels - the greatest WWE champion of all time!

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.