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

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

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

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.