If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.