The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?