Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

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.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

Now, kids are bulls**t meters. We can smell bulls**t right away. When something's not real, you can't connect to it.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.