“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

The cost of freedom is always high.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Never lose your child’s heart.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They’re wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They’re imagining they’re out in the yard playing. They’re imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.