I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years old at that time, and was going to kindergarten. One day the mother of one of his little friends came to see us and said in a sugary voice, 'Oh, it must be so sad for you to have no time to spend with your little boy!' Rajiv roared like a lion: 'My mother spends more time with me than you spend with your little boy, see! Your little boy says you always leave him alone so you can play bridge!' I detest women who do nothing and they play bridge.

I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.