"The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding"

"I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that."

"This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't."

"I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do."

"I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing everytime you crossed a road."

"Everything in the street today seems soft focus."

"Popularity is not a gurantee of quality."

"Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something."

"Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision."

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

"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."

"To become capable, one must have faith in oneself."

"Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen."

"A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other."

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

"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."

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there."

"The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines."

"Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible."

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose."

"The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence."

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

"I learned very soon to get along by myself."

"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."