I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

Life should be great rather than long.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

religion is for man and not man for religion

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny. Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.