I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Never, never, never give up. 

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Many people are forced to do jobs that they don’t like—just to make both ends meet.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. 

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

 Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. 

No force on earth can dislodge democracy and rule forever.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.