If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.