“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm.

Society's rules are nothing more than illusions meant to keep us confined.

The British should know that we are not to be trifled with.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation.