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 inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they’re joyous about it.
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
The longer one doesn’t write, the more difficult it is to communicate.
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
We have believed – and we do believe now – that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
Home is wherever I go.
I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
My commitment is my symbol, my vision my standard, and for this vision, my commitment!