By common endeavour we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Goons thrive on the silence of the masses.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. 

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, from my idea of God.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.