I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.