Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open ….

Most things, except agriculture, can wait.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind ….

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated..

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good..

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women..

Every little thing counts in a crisis..

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing..

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely sayi….

Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of brin….

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long ex….

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself..

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spir….

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and eve….

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and mo….

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thi….

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in..

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us..

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish..

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life..

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, ….