Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.