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

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.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

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.

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.

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

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

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

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

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

I certainly won't have an empty life!