Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

This ‘Knowledge’ manifested in 1958! That day I became a ‘Gnani’ (the enlightened one)! The day before that, ‘I’ too was agnani (ignorant of the Self), wasn’t I?

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they're combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.