Indira Gandhi

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.