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

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 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.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I’ve either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.