“To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.”

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

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.

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I love Tony Jaa. He’s one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

It is when faced with adversity that we get to know what we are made up of, what we are capable of doing, and who we truly are.

I’m now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality