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.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

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?

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

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