A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!

Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!

Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!