Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.