We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. 

The speaker cut short his speech not because he was asked to, but because he suddenly realised that he had nothing more to say!

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I become a lawyer.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

It is only in the human race that females beautify themselves to attract males. Among all the other living beings, it is the other way around.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Wisdom dawns on us when we start losing our wisdom teeth!