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In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.

Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.