No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

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

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.