It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

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

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

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.

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 South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.