“History admits no rules, only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief.”

“The congress is due in a few weeks from now and I will preside over its processes, which must not be prepossessed by any acts calculated to undermine or to compromise the outcomes in the eyes of the public.”

“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”

“History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”

“Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.”

“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”

“What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.”

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

“For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.”

“I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.”