I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

For man is man and master of his fate.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.