The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

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.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.