I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

One needs a Seer’s Vision and an angel’s voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

There is nothing called a dead-end. The option of U-turn is always open.

It is better to carry your raincoat during monsoon even if it does not rain when you go out.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. 

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. 

Experts often possess more data than judgment.