Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
You can change friends but not neighbours.
Freedom is incomplete without social justice.
I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious. . .
Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.