Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. 

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Books are indispensable. You can move from hard copies to soft copies. But that’s about it.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.