Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to ma….

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know..

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past..

I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pa….

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

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working..

A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. Ther….

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….

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers..

I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. A….

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action..

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger..

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not i….

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally,….

No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, b….

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India..

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort ou….

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years..

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react..

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others..

What does nonalignment mean? It means we don't belong to any military bloc and that we reserve the right to be friends with any country, independentl….