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.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

Often your face is your autobiography

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.