To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

Home is wherever I go.

All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.