People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

Tamil Nadu is the only State in the country, which provides rice free of cost to the people under the Public Distribution System.

When something has suffered damage, and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.

Amma believed that challenges set standard for the rise of talent and all we are left behinf are her quotes.

In the cinema industry there are no guarantees or safeguards for anything.

The duty of each police officer in Tamil Nadu is to put forward their lives to safeguard every public individual.

Tamil is also a very ancient language. In fact Tamil is not only the oldest language but the oldest living ancient classical language in the world today.

Anything can happen anytime.

I did not have any mega political alliance. I had faith in god and people of Tamil Nadu

I am by the people and for the people.

True politics is about promotion of human happiness.

It [Communism] did not offer an answer to the question: Why should a man be good?

. I'm not a reckless person, in the sense that I wouldn't do something that's reckless or dangerous, because I'm a pretty careful person. For example, I don't snow ski. I did it once, and I promised God I'd never do it again if I lived through it.

My interest is not in the capture of power, but in the control of power by the people.

Democracy cannot be made secure and strong without peace. Peace and democracy are the two sides of a coin. Neither of them can survive without the other.

I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.