Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Well done is better than well said. 

Nay, do not grieve the' life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her splendour for your grief, Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty To lotus blossoms and Ashoka leaf.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

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

Action expresses priorities.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. 

Where love is, there God is also.