The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.

your trouble is you. you came and get to know the facts, which were not for you .now till end you will claim your share in to the story, will remain as outsider

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.