As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives.

I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.