It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their cast or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

Gotta love it when a plan comes together...

Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.