The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Short cuts make long delays.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.