Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.