Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.