Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.