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've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true.

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.