Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

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

A country is known by the way it treats its animals