Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.