“Great causes and little men go ill together.”

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

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.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.