Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes--this is how mastery occurs!

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.