I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.