Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

-- Blaise Pascal

My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.

-- Thomas Hobbes

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

-- Hannah Arendt

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

-- Bertrand Russell