What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. 

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

God does not play dice.

One of the advantages of renting a house is that you can easily change it if you don’t like it.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  

Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be the measure of our success.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. 

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.