You are never too old to have an active imagination.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Dont wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.