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

Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.

I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.