I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.