Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Life should be great rather than long.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

religion is for man and not man for religion

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

Just as it takes work to be in a relationship, so it takes work to not be in a relationship.

I really think everything happens for a reason.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.