Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. 

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

If you're going through hell, keep going. 

No force on earth can dislodge democracy and rule forever.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulty.

Well done is better than well said. 

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.