Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

How beautiful our country is, even after facing many obstacles, whether it was for independence, or with caste or religion, we Indians always make a comeback and fight with each of them with a huge determination.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.