We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.

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

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.

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.