The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not sleep for the favor of the kings of the world.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. 

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whatever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the causes and prevention of disease.