Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Life should be great rather than long.

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.