The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

Isn't it beautiful when you just stand there right in your track and watch something so amazing, so heart-warming, that you lose track of time and then don't know what to do from there onwards?

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.

Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.