I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

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

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.