My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker..

I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense ….

Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is a….

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..

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alm….

People with clenched fists can not shake hands..

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children..

The power to question is the basis of all human progress..

I don't see the world as something divided between right and left..

I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of povert….

The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would nev….

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in yo….

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go..

... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the s….

My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of India was against us. They wrote….

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequ….

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in..

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future..

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality..

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality..

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let….