What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.

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 water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. 

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.