It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.