The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.

Little people make tall claims. As being this-that avatar or messiah. Some even say they're God. Well, if they are, I'm their grand-pop.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

You have to stick to your guns for what your vision is.