Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.