Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

Never mingle love and business.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

We mathematicans are all a bit crazy.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Coaches win practices, players win games