Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Some appointments end up in disappointment.

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize your age.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill

Compassion can make friends out of enemies.