Even  P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E ends with the letter 'E.' There can be no patience after that. 

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always pluck a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; may be the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. 

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. 

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive position but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. 

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?