Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. 

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, are automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own