Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

I don't at all care who's on the right or left or in the center. Even though we use them, even though I use them myself, these expressions have lost all meaning.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

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