Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Success achieved throught manipulation is short-lived.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Intelligence is the application of knowledge.