"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mohandas K. Gandhi;
"In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge." - Bhagavad Gita;
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Theresa;
"People say 'I want peace'. If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace." - Satya Sai Baba;
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." - Indira Gandhi;
"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self." - Indian proverb ;
"India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire." - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain);
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." - Rabindranath Tagore;
"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit." - Jawaharlal Nehru;
"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure." - Gautama Buddha;
"Where egoism exists, You are not experienced. Where You are, there is no ego. Learned people, expound in your mind this inexpressible proposition." - Guru Granth Sahib Ji;
"In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing." - Apollonius Tyanaeus;
"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of quantum physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense." - Werner Heisenberg;
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother." - Dhammapada;
"In India words are the daughters of earth, and deeds are the sons of heaven." - Sir William Jones;
"She [India] has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim...her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity." - Sylvain Levi;
"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day." - Indian proverb;
"At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world." - Jules Michelet;
"Goethe, Wordswoth, Emerson, and Thoreau among moderns have something of this vitality and wisdom but we can find all they have said and much more in the grand sacred books of India." - A. E. George Russel;
"We have shown how much we surpass the Indians in courage and wickedness, and how inferior to them we are in wisdom. Our European nations have... destroyed themselves in this land where we only go in search of money, while the first Greeks traveled to the same land only to instruct themselves." - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire;
"Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher." - Gautama Buddha;
"O believers! You have charge over your own souls. God changes not what is in a people, until they change what is in themselves." - Qur'an;
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmological philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial." - Henry David Thoreau;
"If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest day when man began the dream of existance, it is India." - Romain Rolland;
"It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numberals and the decimal system." - Will Durant;
"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either." - Max Muller;
