We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

No distinctions of caste and creed should hamper us. All are the sons and daughters of India. We should all love our country and build our destiny on mutual love and help.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.