NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out as the recipe for "happiness" for the human race, and what has generally been decided counts as "progress." People arrive at a different understanding of happiness, however fragile it is. They find it in unexpected ways, in the most unexpected of places.

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

Old. A viable die-able age.

India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.