Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.