In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

We have come here with a message of love and brotherhood.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.

If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30

Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.

As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution