We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

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

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

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

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

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

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

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

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

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

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

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

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

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

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