I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

Humans are animals of habit.

Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

People always loved best what they identified most with.

I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.

The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.

Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.

What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.

You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to prioritise them better; we need to grow them better, mind them better. We need to give more value to them, and we need to execute a lot of areas in the organisation where we are not executing.

When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.

Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.