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.

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.

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

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!

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.