Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

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

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.