Play the hand you’re dealt.
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
What we need is a generation of peace.
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.
A man who is afraid will do anything.
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.