When warmongers offer to negotiate for peace, it is called diplomacy.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Freedom is not given - it is taken

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.