Common sense needs no google search.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Insomnia works like slow poison on our body.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.