Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.