The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.