“Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.”

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

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

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.

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

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

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

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.

It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

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

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.

Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

It is either easy or impossible.

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.

Life gets easier when you love yourself harder.

Push one step further not because it’s easy, but because you can.

It is always easier, to tell the truth when we open our hearts before opening our mouth.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

It’s easy to forget who you are.