“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.

When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

To be successful in life what you need is education.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

And in your city – you call me “home.”

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.