The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

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?

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.

Your eyes have the colour of the moon,

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Faith is something a lot of people relate to as a God-thing, but it's also faith in yourself.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.