No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.