If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented..

Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both se….

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake..

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate..

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act..

All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a peopl….

There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy..

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy..

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable..

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly app….

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

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious..

India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the ….

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Toda….

Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair….

Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things..

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing co….

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, ….

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud..

You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it po….