It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

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

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

My future is righteousness.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, from my idea of God.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.