A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.
Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence
Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it
If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.
I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.
Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.
How do you ask a woman to gargle your nuts?
Don't leave home without your left hemisphere
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. . . . I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.