Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

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

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

God always takes the simplest way.

I deny the very existence of that Almighty Supreme Being.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.