Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

If you work day-and-night, you may lose the sense of time.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

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.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.