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

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

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

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.

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.

To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God’s passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

I had to do two roles in two days, I'm in a hairflux.

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.