Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

Many of us are guilty of not taking enough time to dial into our inner child's voice.

You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live

The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.