There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

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.

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.