I'm not an expert on the arms race.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.