"I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job."

"I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. 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."

"We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives."

"Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country."

"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."

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights."

"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not."

"Allah exalts whom he wills!"

"Prophet (PBUH) considered the ink of a scholar to be holier than the blood of a martyr."

"The more you study, the more you know; how less you know."

"Heaven's ebon vault, studded with stars unutterably bright, through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, seems like a canopy which love has spread to curtain her sleeping world"

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."

"To perceive things in the germ is intelligence"

"For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance."

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."

"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know."

"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt."

"The way to do is to be."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained."