I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.

Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.