Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.

The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.