The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. 

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.