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.

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

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

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

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.

Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!

When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

Walking on water is safer than sailing in a leaking boat.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.

Dans mon coeur, je vais toujours être un Canadiens./Ill always be a Hab at heart.