People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

Home is wherever I go.