I am not interested when people refer to a quarter or this year because the way I look at a country is what are its prospects over the next 20-30 years, and India's are good.

You wonder, 'How could it possibly be me?' Well, of course it could happen to you. You have it. Then, of course, you wake up every morning, and you hope it's a bad dream. Then you wake up. I have cancer.

There are legitimate concerns long term, in my view, about nuclear war and policy and stuff like that. But the world has become a better place every 20 years for the last 2,000 years.

We are going through a period of profound political and economic change around the world, and American citizens showed that deep desire for change in voting to elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

It's really important that people don't view success as a competition.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

The secret of my success is that I deeply respect and learn from my peers and customers.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.