“Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.”

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

A human being is a deciding being.

Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Success is total self-acceptance.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

The world’s history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

A little understanding of “As you sow, so shall you reap” is important, because then you can’t blame the condition you’re in on anyone else.

If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.