Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

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

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.