I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 

 In a theist state, religion affects even atheists!

World belongs to humanity, not the leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. 

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. 

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dull or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Most worldly affairs are money-centric.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.