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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

There’s a level of service that we could provide when we’re just at Harvard that we can’t provide for all of the colleges, and there’s a level of service that we can provide when we’re a college network that we wouldn’t be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

Lots of army officers… a large number still believe that I have done my best for this country. They respect me.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.