Police can only act on intelligence.

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

What we will become depends on us

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

Do you pray for our world or just your world? If all your prayers were answered, would it change our world or just your world?

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

It began as a mistake.

Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.