Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.

Embrace the sacredness of a new day.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

Love and meaningful relationships are vital to physical and emotional well-being.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

Don't have stories; have sentences.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .