The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would never succeed in remaining pregnant.

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

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.

We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.