I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

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

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

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.

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

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.

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

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.