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

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.

When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

To be successful in life what you need is education.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, ‘What’s in it for me?’