You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
A nation’s strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
There is not love where there is no will.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.