A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Integrity is the premium of your character.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

No one loves the man whom he fears.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.