Whatever I feel, I say frankly.

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.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone.

We don't forget... we remember... but later it becomes so faded and light in our memory that it no longer holds power to influence us anyway...

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

Days are a finite resource and it's best to protect the ones you have.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.