“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.”

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

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.”

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

I’ve never been particularly ambitious. I’m driven by the moment.