Indira Gandhi

"A moment of courage can change the trajectory of a life."

"The future is not given; it is built by those who dare to imagine it differently."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice."

"Every person carries within them the potential to transform the world."

"The beauty of humanity lies in its capacity for growth and redemption."

"The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, not in what it can borrow from others."

"The question before this nation is not whether we can afford to make a great change, but whether we can afford not to."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"You must work on the system, and not just on the individuals."

"In any case, martyrdom does not really mean going all out to get yourself killed for the sake of a cause, but rather devoting yourself so completely to a cause that it becomes worth more than your life."

"The President and I have long agreed that the question of South Asian regional security cannot be separated from the question of disarmament."

"When we talk of the future of Indian democracy we must talk of the future of freedom and the future of freedom struggles."

"People like me are aware of their responsibility to their country."

"Don't follow the path, it only leads where others have been."

"The time to relax is when you have time."

"I have faced many challenges in my life, but whenever I was about to give up, I would remember that I had come this far for a reason."

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, just as labor does the body."

"Power is not happiness. Power is not success. It is only usefulness."

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

"For me the most important thing is that my country should progress and be free."

"We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by the failure to grow anything from them."

"There is not personal problem which is not ultimately the problem of us all."

"Ours is a land where a man is rooted in his soil and that is a strength."

"The partition of India was perhaps the greatest tragedy of our times."

"I believe that life is a series of choices, and at each crossroads, we must choose wisely."

"A democratic nation is not an accident of history but a deliberately constructed endeavor."

"In the midst of complexity, we must find the simple truth."