India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals

Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.