Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

Juno MacGuff: Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.

The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?

Nobody intimidates me.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.