I had recently had the impression they were changing - not so much by becoming less pro-Pakistan as by becoming less anti-India. I was wrong. My visit to [Richard] Nixon did anything but avert the war.

Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

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.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.