It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

One of the greatest disease is to be nobody to anybody.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

We make war that we may live in peace.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?