“While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it’s okay if education becomes a profitable business, it’s not okay if it becomes corrupt.”

Don’t be serious, be sincere.

Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is – that of an overpaid clerk.

I am human, I am not perfect. Although, I make mistakes all the time.

The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian.

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don’t look down. Just fly higher so the stones won’t reach you

The world’s most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can’t even tell who is who.

All of us needed time to rest. And we had time – four months of it – to take all the rest in the world.

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

Sometimes life is not about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

The pretty girl is always right.

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.