"Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't..." - Quote by A P J Abdul Kalam

“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?”

“I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.”

“Work with integrity and succeed with integrity”

“The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.”

“You are the only one who has to live your life.”

“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”

“This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell you what kind of gun?' 'No,' she replied. 'He doesn't even know I'm going to shoot him.”

“If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.”

“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”