In a consecrated calm, forgotten yet. Of the keen heart that hastens to forget old longings in fulfilling new desires.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Being humble could be dangerous. Humility may be mistaken for submission.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.