Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.