Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

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

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

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.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

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

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.