Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

Would God be a frequent contact or an in case of emergency in your phone? If he is only an in case of emergency, he will you in different emergencies so he can be frequently contacted.

It feels great, to work for what you want.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

I want. . . a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.