Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!