I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.