“Let’s turn out in large numbers to vote & be part of a vibrant democracy.”

I’ve been fortunate to have caring and loving parents, who gave me the freedom to fly and chase my dreams.

Loving a sport with passion is important! Being open to new experiences is equally important.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

You tried, you failed, you believed & in the end you are an inspiration for the nation.

The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.

I just want to continue the way I am going.

It’s always been a joy to spend time with youngsters.‬

A healthy country is a happy country.

Don’t wait for a special day to plant a tree. The best time is now.

How about a 6 month vacation, twice a year?

There might be many strong walls around us but the greatest yet is the one and only, Rahul Dravid.

The unconditional love, support and attention that our parents showered on us as we were growing up laid our foundation as individuals.

When we wander, we reconnect with our inner selves.

The lessons to be learnt from success and failure are equally important, and more often than not, failure and sorrow are bigger teachers than success and happiness.

It’s always good to mix work with play.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

If I don’t get along with Democrats, I’m sort of, like, out of business.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

India is a country that shares the values of freedom, democracy, basic human rights and the rule of law with the United States and Japan.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is the road to socialism.