If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.

You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it possible to fight without violence?' But without violence we obtained freedom.

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.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

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

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.