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.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

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

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.