I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

I am used to controversies.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.