My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.

Home is wherever I go.

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.