My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

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

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.