Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. 

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. 

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.