Compromise is the easy option adopted by the inhabitants of the comfort zone.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Wit is educated insolence

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others have not been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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.