[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing

No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that.

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.