"There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score."

“From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.”

“Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.”

“A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.”

“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”

“The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”

“I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular is not accessible to me and although people are generous, I can never be on the inside of a culture that relies a great deal on the private space and the family.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”

Source : Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India