In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better.

They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?