I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Perfection spells stagnation.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. 

Happiness is a state of mind.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.