"The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff."

“Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

“In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.”

Source : "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

“But since I'm single, it's nice to get a kiss where I can.”

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

“Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each other but included each other, and went together in friendship; that it was approached in different ways and through many symbols; that it resided in the hearts of its devotees. Here there were no chosen people, no exclusive prophethoods, no privileged churches and fraternities and ummas. The message was subversive of all religions based on exclusive claims.”

Source : Ram Swarup (1992). “Hindu View of Christianity and Islam”

“Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.”

Source : Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”

“Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight”

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.232, Anchor