“India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.”

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.

Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives- sunflowers.