I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

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

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.