Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

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

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.