The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.