The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

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?

Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

You know what I want, above all things? I want people who are aware of my music right now, to believe in change.

It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you're not alone and there are people out there who can support you.

Music tells no truths.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.