My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

Castes never meant that much to me.

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

life separates us as the wind separetes the Dandelion flower petals

Only cooked time tastes well

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more.

So many other people are saying #NotMyPresident [on Donald Trump].

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.