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?

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

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.

Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

A man is more than his failings.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.