To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.