There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

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

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 experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

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