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

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

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

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.