I’m a Bangalore boy.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Touring is hard on the body.

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

Sevier County is a great area.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.