by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

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.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

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

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.