An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Love is a feeling which you can't change but its change you, Beloved is a person whom you can't replace with anyone but you replace your wishes with his or her wishes

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.