"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I am interested in power for the sake of India."

"The greatest danger to India is not external aggression, but internal disunity."

"The world is full of people who are always waiting for someone else to do something about their problems. They are the ones who will never achieve anything."

"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."

"Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances."