My father was a saint. I'm not.

... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.

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.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.