Every citizen of India must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. 

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Shame is the mental discomfort with a physcial situation.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.