Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; may be the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; The way you play it is free will.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

There is no end to the adventure that we can have if only we seek them with your eyes open.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.