Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. 

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

Dictators are bound to usurp democracy at the very first opportunity. 

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

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.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.