To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

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.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.