When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.

No two persons have the same mind or the same body.