You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

Your beauty isn't in your laughter. It's in your soul.

Everything changed...even the things we didn't want to.

You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky.

I have two kids and they have the same rules. We have to do this as a community.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.