Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Life is never free of contradictions

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.