Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.