The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

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

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

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

In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the war we were able to control it. In fact the Pakistanis were astonished by this. There were prisoners in the camp hospitals who exclaimed, 'What? You're a Hindu doctor and you want to cure me?'

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.