Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. 

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Compromise is the easy option adopted by the inhabitants of the comfort zone.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.