They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

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

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.