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

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

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

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

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

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.