It is my nature to be a friend of the friendless.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future. 

Sometimes, success depends upon what you do after failure.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The price of greatness is responsibility. 

life loses half its interest if there is no struggle, if there are no risk to be taken.

The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.