If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Bigotry tries to keep teeth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.