“There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare”

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Leadership does not mean domination.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Place principle above all else.

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world’s fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.

As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

I admire you on how you always pay attention to every little things like they all matter to you.

You are not obligated to pay attention to things that threaten your peace.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

If something catches your attention, it’s probably going to catch the attention of others, too.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.