Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

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.

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.

I am used to controversies.

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style.""That is a footstool.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not the mind".

No one is fine on his own. People just say they are.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.