The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Rulers are remembered for their commitment to masses more than anything else.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. 

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.

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

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.