In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.