Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the meaning of realising Him.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

There is no substitute for merit.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

 When I am overcome by an inflated ego, I think of the lofty mountains.

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.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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.