It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.