There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. 

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

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.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.