The republic is a dream, Nothing happens unless first a dream

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

We must re-dedicate ourselves on this day to the peaceful but sure realisation of the dream that had inspired the Father of our Nation and the other captains and soldiers of our freedom struggle, the dream of establishing a classless, co-operative, free and happy society in "his country," "We must remember that this is more a day of dedications than of rejoicing - dedication to the glorious task of making the peasants and workers the toilers and the thinkers fully free, happy and cultured