Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.