Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!