You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.
I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people. . . I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance. . . and courage.
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
Education is a slow moving but powerful force
I do have cellulite. I have it everywhere. From the neck down!
Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.
Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.