One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.