Books are indispensable. You can move from hard copies to soft copies. But that’s about it.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

Complacence among the masses may lead to subjugation bythe leaders.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; may be the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.