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.

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

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.