India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.