Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be the measure of our success.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. 

Religion is a matter between the man and his Maker. 

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.