The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. 

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The main task before India today is to consolidate herself into a well-knit and united power.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.