At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.