A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

Labour is priceless, not gold.