"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it…"

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

"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."

"I am not a theoretician, but a man of action."

"We live in a world of paradoxes and contradictions."