The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temple; my philosophy is kindness.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Tell Churchill to save England first before saving India.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. IS considered the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.