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

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

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.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.