The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. 

Distraction is just another form of attraction.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. 

Festivals are meant relieve the stress of our everyday lives.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.