I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. l 

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. 

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.