There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

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.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.