Ability is not always gauged by examination.

In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.

A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

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

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.