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.

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.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.