If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

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

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.