You should always assert your rights lest somebody should wrong you unnecessarily.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. 

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical things to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.