Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned.

Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.

She laughed, and the sound pierced his heart.

Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.