I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

Merely to exist is not enough.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.