A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism in a politics of hope?

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.