I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

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

[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

I don't want to hear about my death.