Jawaharlal Nehru

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

We teach people how to treat us.

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.