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

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

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?

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

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

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

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.