It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Don't worry about what others think of you. It doesn't matter as long as you have your own Convictions and are proud of what you do.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.

If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.

I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.