“Wonder is the mother of all science.”

I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.

The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.

The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

A problem well put is half solved.

In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I’m glad my mom made me do it.

We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

I have always admired my mother’s style. For as long as I can remember, her style has been classic, elegant and something I have related to.

A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.

My mom keeps khabar of everything, so I don’t feel lonely.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.