“In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.”

I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

There is not love where there is no will.

My father was a saint. I’m not.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

America’s strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.