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

Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

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

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

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.

You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

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.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.

I don’t need to see how, I just need to know you.

I always have faith that something’s going to happen good for you, and it going to happen.

May today be the day you step out in faith into this unknown, knowing you are never alone. For he promised to never leave you.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.