If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.  

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whatever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not sleep for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

What we think, we become.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.