Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around