A hero is a man who does what he can.

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.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

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