We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

I live life what I consider to be normal.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

When there is no presence of self-love, the hunger for attention tends to take over one's mind

That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.