I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.