The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

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.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

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

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

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.