In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.

If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.

My expertise is running businesses.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

The firstsign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and actgreat. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assuresus, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.