The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

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.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

No matter what happens to us, I will ensure that she will never forget this moment in her life. That she will think of this day, this evening, this moment...

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

It doesn't matter as long as you're there to enjoy the atmosphere. How else am I an entertainer?