The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Nay, do not grieve the' life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her splendour for your grief, Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty To lotus blossoms and Ashoka leaf.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. 

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Religion is a matter of the heart. Not physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.