With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Life is never free of contradictions

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.