For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

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.

In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.

Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think “harder” via different thought processes.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.