Looks like slavery was in always in the human DNA. Why else do we find people subduing others and others willing to slog for their masters?

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Whether you call it Buddhism or other religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Schools and colleges are just buildings. The real test of education is: how much knowledge the teachders are able to transfer to their students.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

There are grey areas in every relationship.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. 

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.