The presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses.

I bring to the work [of president] an honest heart; I dare not tell you that I bring a head sufficient for it.

I am not the ruler of Gujarat, I'm a servant of Gujarat. The environment in which I grew up, seva is treated as a dharma, not power.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.