Romain Rolland

"If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself."

"One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved."

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India."

"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails."

"A hero is a man who does what he can."

"No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself."

"The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest."

"If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself."