Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliban, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.

The law is reason, free from passion.

In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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

Politicians just do an aerial survey of disasters. Genuine leaders carry out relief measures on ground zero.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.