“If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.”

India has always maintained that there will be no third party in Indo-Pak talks. Hurriyat cannot be a party.

I don’t know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.

Eating chocolates or popping pills won’t reduce depression. Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life.

Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable.

Pakistan is running away from talks which will be held only when we get reply. Time available is only tonight.

If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda.

A little understanding of “As you sow, so shall you reap” is important, because then you can’t blame the condition you’re in on anyone else.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

When you’re 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.