If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.