You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of India was against us. They wrote to Gandhi, to my fther, to me. Insults, death threats. Every day the postman arrived with an enormous sack and dumped the letters on the floor. We even stopped reading them; we let a couple of friends read them and tell us what was in them.