Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

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

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Africa is on the rise.

We’re news junkies in my house.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

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.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.