Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.