That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The things that we use today are products of our cultural heritage and economic development.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

What we think, we become.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If you are part of a false propaganda machinery, you are fighting for the wrong cause.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.  

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.