In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

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

I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.

People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

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.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.