There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

I don't believe in taking right decisions.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

Because of Bluetooth headsets, it's getting more and more difficult to tell who's schizophrenic and who's on a conference call.

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.

You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.