I learned very soon to get along by myself.

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.