As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.

God is a symbol of imaginative power

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.