When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.