Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

satyagraha is not a creed for the weak or the cowardly.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Nature does nothing in vain.