Gullibility creates trust in things that are not worthy of trust.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Materialism and commercialisation are destroying the basic human nature.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. 

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Life should be great rather than long.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.