“Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.”

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

There is not love where there is no will.

My father was a saint. I’m not.

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.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.

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

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

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.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

he broken hearted are the bravest among us. They had the courage to love.

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.