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.

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.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)

Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.