Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished

He who hath many friends hath none.

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

We don't need to proselytize either by your speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.