I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The sea has its moods. Sometimes it is melancholic and morose, other times fierce and feisty. But always passionate. Even when calm, one can sense the depth of the sea’s passion

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

So, blind to Someone I must be.