In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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

Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

The best way to solve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.