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

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

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

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.

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.

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

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.