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

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

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.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.