The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does become tainted.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. 

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.