I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms, are all very good words for the lips.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. 

Looks like slavery was in always in the human DNA. Why else do we find people subduing others and others willing to slog for their masters?

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

It is only so long as a man can retain the child in him that life can be free from those dark shadows which leave inevitable furrows on a man’s forehead.