People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

We are defined by what we do

Sometimes it’s nice to remember the little things.

Hope is inner strength and believe in a brighter tomorrow.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.