Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

For the world has changed, and we must change with it

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

I guess life is full of maybes.

Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.