Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

Poverty is the greatest violence.