Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

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

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future. 

If you can dream it, you can do it.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. 

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.