India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

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.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

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.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.

We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white, " until later their true colors come out.

I think it's very hard if you love someone to walk away from a relationship that isn't healthy.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

On every mountain height is rest.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.