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

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.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.