To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.