Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

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, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.