Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can’t be done.
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.
There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
For after the Battle comes quiet.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.
Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.