The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.