I had recently had the impression they were changing - not so much by becoming less pro-Pakistan as by becoming less anti-India. I was wrong. My visit to [Richard] Nixon did anything but avert the war.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.