There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

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?

The War, ' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

A Salute to our Journey's End! Good Riddance.

Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction because it serves a purpose.

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?