People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

Nothing holds you back more than fear of failure.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo.

Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury.

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.