In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.