In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

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

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

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.

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