No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

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.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.