Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.

Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.

For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.