When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

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.

It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.