The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser’s hoard buried underground.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads”, and the “Bhagavad Gita”.