Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power

Ask yourself if I'm capable of contradictions, Draupadi.Some missions succeed only by their spectacular failure. - Krishn

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.

Truth is a kaleidoscope - it alters with perspective

I seemed to have lost my husband and best friend simultaneously – and to each other. Something warned me that I would get back either both or none.- #Draupadi

Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.

Absence of questions is not proof of answers.

No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey

Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope.

You have to give yourselfpermission to be happy.Nobody else can give it to you.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.