"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"

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

"You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you."

"A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them."

"May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character."

"Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count."