I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.