One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

A beautiful world with ugly people

When my grandchildren ask me what I did in the '42 movement [Quit India Movement] I say - "I waited for it.

We all fail in some of our endeavors, but unfortunately, some of us tend not to see the reason to try again.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.