I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

I think the first and most important thing is that you've got to have a goal and a vision.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

For me, power was never an attraction.

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.

People want government to deliver - here and now.

The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.

Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.