Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Gullibility creates trust in things that are not worthy of trust.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.