Indira Gandhi

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

There is not love where there is no will.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible that peace is indivisible that economic prosperity is indivisible.

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

My grandfather once told me that there are 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 there.

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