Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

May your swords stay sharp -Brom

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

The God that can be named is not God.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.