We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always felt that the books I have written fastest have been my best - because I caught an unstoppable momentum in the writing.