What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. 

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

 A  language that does not evolve with time dies a natural death.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.