I am really unable to talk about my life - I don't know my life. I've travelled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn't mean that I know myself.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

Take principles, not just religion, to people

A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy.

This for me was home, and for the visitors, Kashmir".

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.