Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Life is never free of contradictions

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

What you discover valuable to you can make all the difference in your life.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.

If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.