The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. 

We don't need to proselytize either by your speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

 It is human beings’ sinister mind that produces viruses as biological weapons.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.