Quotes

"You and I make the rules and break the rules. We need to have the human touch first. If you can’t be a good human being, there’s
no point having rules.”

Byram Avari, chairman, Avari Hotels,
G2, April-May 2015, submitted by
reader Rashid Khosravi

"I think we have the basics over here, we need the focus.”

Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts, on
business/industrial development in
Maharashtra, DNA, February 16, 2016

"If there are problems with their (solar concentrators) working, do we not have, or can we not hire the engineering skills required to overcome them so that the dakhmenashini system gets to work — monsoon or no monsoon?”

BASZA newsletter, Issue 6/2015-16

"My blood type is such that I don’t react to local anesthesia, and I tried explaining to the doctor in Hungary. But due to the language problem, I guess he didn’t quite get it. So when he cut my knee open, I could feel the excruciating pain.”

John Abraham, actor, whose mother
Pheroza is a Parsi, The Times of
India, March 10, 2016

"Never eat when not hungry
and never ignore hunger. Both
are equally important.”

Mickey Mehta, holistic health trainer,
DNA, March 10, 2016

"The quality of the borrower
should be examined. You don’t
see much NPAs (non performing assets) in housing because
banks lend strictly on the
basis of salary slips.”

Yezdi Hirji Malegam, member of National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards, Hindustan Times, March 15, 2016

"When I went to the Zoroastrian temple in Los Angeles I
discovered that I, along with
many, many, many, many people who don’t realize it, am a
Zoroastrian. My beliefs line up with Zoroastrianism back to the days, 3,000 years ago, of Zarathustra.”

Morgan Freeman, American actor,
while preparing for National Geographic’s TV series "The Story of God with Morgan Freeman,” quoted on worldscreen.com
on March 28, 2016

"His favorite part is the obituary page. ‘I feel happy about the fact that I am not featured there.’”

Farzana Contractor, editor, UpperCrust, quoting Dr Jehangir Sorabjee,
UpperCrust, July-September 2015

"We are a religion that will
be taught and not practiced
in two generations.”

Young North American mobed,
quoted in a letter by Porus Dadabhoy

"Some people in my community would like some seats reserved at university level, but I am not for it.”

Anu Aga, parliamentarian,
The Economic Times, April 4, 2016