The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and...
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
But, uncle, isn’t it possible to make other songs, new songs? Why make them? There are enough for everything. There are songs for when you are sad, and for when you are gay; for when you are weary, an...
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Stones are hard everywhere.
They were the only members of their family, and they were both humble, crushed, and thrust aside by life; they were united in sadness and tenderness by a bond of mutual pity and common suffering, born...