The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

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

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

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

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

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.