Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

You don’t need a troll army to silence a lie.