A theory must be tempered with reality.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism, the way you play it is free will.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

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

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

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