“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

My approach to the races hasn’t changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.

The struggles I’m facing, The chances I’m taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I’m not breaking.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year’s season.