Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the war we were able to control it. In fact the Pakistanis were astonished by this. There were prisoners in the camp hospitals who exclaimed, 'What? You're a Hindu doctor and you want to cure me?'

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

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.