At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

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.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.