Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

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.

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

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.