The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

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

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

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

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