My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

Sports can't be run by governments.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.