Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. 

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr’s death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr’s blood.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Every mother is born of another mother. So, the legacy will continue forever.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!