Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Happiness is a state of mind.

My only desire is that India should be a good producer and no one should be hungry, shedding tears for food in the Country.

Religion is a matter of faith. Science has to face challenges at every step.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.