India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

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?

You can never truly become great if you do not discover your purpose in life.

Revenge is an orphan in bad company she had learnt. Until it accepts the truth, it may never find grace.

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

A woman needs to be told she is beautiful. She needs to be told she is valued. She needs to be told she is worthwhile.

Exceptional people learn that doing their best is all they can do.