"I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other."

“It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.”

“Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.”

“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”

“How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.”

Source : Kevin Zraly (2009). “Windows on the World Complete Wine Course”, p.73, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”

“The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.”

Source : "Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 10, 2005.

“Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.”

“Respond to others about your work with equanimity.”