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

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

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?

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

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

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.