"What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener."

“Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.”

“There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.”

Source : Mark Van Doren (1961). “The Happy Critic and Other Essays”

“To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.”

“I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.”

“I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.”

“GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison.”

“Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?”

“I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.”

Source : "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.