Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

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

Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.