What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

As a nation, every one of us should have to give priority to our country i.e., India. We just need to forget which religion or caste we are belonging to. Or in which society or state we are living. As an Indian, we need to put our whole efforts in the development of the country.

I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.