I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.