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.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, IS myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.  

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you emulate somebody, you may create an identity crisis for yourself.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your response later on.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.