If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

I am used to controversies.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Buy at a faire, but sell at home. [Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]

Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.

[Steven] Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase with demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'