"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

"Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it"

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."