I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.