“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

Strength & Courage. Peace & Truth. Fertility & Growth. Life in Movement. My country stands for these values.

Every time you play for your country, there is responsibility. But when you are captaining, you can say so; you have to lead from the front and make sure the team follows the direction you want them to.

Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.