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

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.