I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

There’s nothing wrong with you at all. Sometimes people say or do things that are mean because there's something the matter with them. With Lydia, it seems there’s always something wrong with her.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.