You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

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.

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.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.