I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.