I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

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.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.