Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.