When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

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

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

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