Africans require, want, to franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in the world.

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr’s death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr’s blood.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Our consistent effort towards the development of a nation can make the whole country proud all over the world, but the lack of teamwork can surely make us familiar with huge disasters.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.