“The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.”

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Those who boast are seldom the great.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

What we need is a generation of peace.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

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.

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn’t something to shrug off.

Life is sweeter when you’ve got an attitude of gratitude!

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

You’re right.I am crazy. But you know what else? I don’t give a fuck.

My name, is my name. Ask me again, i’ll tell you the same.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Take me or leave me I’ll never be perfect – believe me, I’m worth it.

If you are not the best, then pretend you are.