A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess