Through your rags I see your vanity.

Playback singing is fun and good money. But it's no big art really; only the film and record people glorify it with all those gold and silver discs given to singers. I wish I could take all of them to the goldsmith and draw the metal out.

We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.