We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.  

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Nay, do not pinni, tho' life be dark with trouble.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Mother's milk is available only to the offsprings of mammals. Birds, insects, aquatic beings and many other life forms have other own ways of feeding their young.

I should tie myself to a particular system of society other than of socialism.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.