Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.
You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.