I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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

It is only on the basis of undiluted nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Insomnia works like slow poison on our body.

Laughter is America's most important export.

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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.